Delaware Public Archives Blog

There’s a new tool now available for online patrons to search the records of the Delaware Public Archives. Known as the Collection Gateway, this new feature searches the databases of nineteen different collections in the Archives. The Collection Gateway will open a treasure trove of information for historians, genealogists, and all citizens who have an […]

Join us on Saturday, November 5, 10:30 a.m. as the Delaware Public Archives continues its commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War with a program entitled “The Tragic Odyssey of Obie Evans and other African-Americans in Civil-War Delaware.”  Obie Evans escaped slavery, survived the Battle of the Crater, and participated in Baltimore’s post-war street […]

Over the next few weeks in celebration of Archives  month we will be hosting guest bloggers. They will share their point of view and stories from the archives.  Today’s blog is from Kathy Graybeal, Sussex County Librarian. Library staffers hear the phrase all the time. “I just didn’t know that libraries did that!” Or “I […]

Over the next few weeks in celebration of Archives  month we will be hosting guest bloggers. They will share their point of view and stories from the archives.  Today’s blog is from Jim Frazier, Government Services Manager.   The times they are a-changin’ in the Government Services section. The retirement bug is on the loose […]

Over the next few weeks in celebration of Archives  month we will be hosting guest bloggers. They will share their point of view and stories from the archives.  Today’s blog is from Stephen Marz, the Archives Director.   During October the Delaware Public Archives celebrates American Archives Month…so what’s an Archives and what’s an Archivist….taking each […]

  Over the next few weeks in celebration of Archives month we will be hosting guest bloggers.  They will share their point of view and stories from the archives.  Today’s blog is from Sarah Denison, processing archivist. As the resident newbie here at the Archives, I’m regularly impressed and intrigued by the arsenal of information […]

Did you know that October is national archives month? Why not test your knowledge of the Delaware Public Archives? We were created in 1905 by the General Assembly as the Public Archives Commission, and are one of the oldest archives in the country. Our first residence was in the old state house.  We house records […]

            Join us on Saturday, October 1, 10:30 a.m., as the Delaware Public Archives  continues its commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War by sponsoring a program entitled “A Fragmented Nation, A Divided State: The Delaware Home Front.”  Divided loyalties, a critical strategic position, and a major Federal prison made Delaware […]

That was the answer a woman told the admission office at a local college.  She stopped in last week and said “Can you believe I have to give them proof? They said I can’t start school without proving my immunizations are up to date. My pediatrician isn’t around anymore. How I am going to prove […]

Are you going to be in Millsboro this weekend?  If so, you should pay a visit to the Nanticoke Indian Pow Wow. It’s a southern Delaware fall tradition. Did you know the Archives have various records relating to the Nanticoke Indians? We have books entitled “A Photographic Survey of the Indian River Community”, “Surviving Indian […]